Bernard Germain Étienne comte de LACÉPÈDE... - Lot 48 - Conan Belleville Hôtel d'Ainay

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Bernard Germain Étienne comte de LACÉPÈDE... - Lot 48 - Conan Belleville Hôtel d'Ainay
Bernard Germain Étienne comte de LACÉPÈDE (1756-1825), zoologist, grand chancellor of the Legion of Honor. 3 letters signed to the chemist Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin (1763-1829). 4 pp. in-folio, headings of the Legion of Honor. Paris, messidor year 13 - July 1807. On the analysis of the waters of Ecouen and Sarcelles. "Find it good, my dear colleague, that I have the honor to send you four bottles containing different waters that are drunk in Ecouen or in the surroundings. The just desire that I have to provide by all possible means for everything that can be done for the health of the Imperial House of Napoleon, established for the daughters of the members of the Legion of Honor at the Château d'Ecouen, has made me determine that, when this house is in operation, the quantity of water from the Seine that is necessary for the drinking of the ladies and girls who will live at the Château d'Ecouen will be brought there every day; but I do not wish less to know the nature of the four kinds of water contained in the bottles that I have the honor to send you". He asks him to make the analysis. "I cannot address myself to a chemist neither more skilful nor more complaisant []".
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